Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Eban by Allison Merritt: Spotlight with Excerpt

Genre: Paranormal
Romance

If love can’t
save them, there will be hell to pay.

Grateful for his
mother’s human blood that cools the dark fire of his demon father, Eban
Heckmaster has set up a medical practice in New Mexico territory. But there’s
no hope of living a normal life until he rids himself of a seductive demon
that’s been pursuing him.

Vanquishing it won’t be
as simple as sharpening his demon-hunting sword. The clever creature is hiding
inside his best friend’s head, and she has no idea of the havoc she’s been
wreaking, especially with his body.

Beryl suspects Eban
knows why she’s been waking up with no memory of where she’s been or what she’s
done, but he’s not talking. But when she inevitably learns what he’s hiding—or
rather, what’s hiding inside her—she wonders if her love for him is real, or an
illusion created by the demon’s lust.

Eban is losing the
battle to hold his rising desire in check. There may be only one way to
extricate Beryl from the beast entangling her mind. Call upon his demon
blood…and offer it as a sacrifice.

Product Warnings

Contains a half-human, half-demon doctor who can heal anyone except himself,
and a woman who’d blush if she could remember the sensuous torture she’s been
inflicting on him. Could make you wonder if you should start listening to the
voices in your head…

~Excerpt~

Eban Heckmaster dreamed
of becoming tangled in a river of gold. Soft and silky upon entering, it turned
deadly within moments. He couldn’t breathe as it filled his nose. It bound his
wrists, his ankles, blocked his vision. So much and so warm, sweat broke out
across his body.

He’d die cradled in a
gilded nest.

And he was fine with
that.

Anything was better than
living with the knowledge that his brother had taken the woman Eban loved as
his bride hours ago.

Eban’s lungs ached for
breath and his eyes shot open. Startled by weight settling on his abdomen, he
tried to sit up, but two small hands held him down. Thanks to his demon blood,
it only took a moment to adjust to the dark. In the nonexistent light, he
peered up at Beryl Brookshier’s angelic face. She gave him a wicked smile as
long strands of wheat blonde hair tickled his bare chest. He sucked in a breath
when he realized she was naked and a sheet was the only thing separating her
from his raging erection.

“What are you doing?”

The second the words
were out of his mouth, Eban knew he wasn’t talking to Beryl.

“Ravish me, Ebaneezer.”

The demon used Beryl’s
voice and body, but the thing talking to him was far from human. The notion of
taking its head off and sparing himself a lot of trouble was tempting.

If not for the real
Beryl’s trusting green eyes and bashful smile.

“That stopped being
funny the first time you got naked in front of me.”

She caressed his cheek.
“You were dreaming. I was trying to make your dreams more pleasant.”

He slapped her hands
away. “You thought you’d tempt me into bedding you and then letting some other
parasite into my brain. That’s not going to happen, Rosemar.”

A love of reading
inspired Allison Merritt to pursue her dream of becoming an author who writes
historical, paranormal and fantasy romances, often combining the sub-genres.
She lives in a small town in the Ozark Mountains with her husband and dogs.
When she's not writing or reading, she hikes in national parks and conservation
areas.

Allison graduated from
College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri with a B.A. in mass
communications that's gathering dust after it was determined that she's better
at writing fluff than hard news.

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